You know the feeling–it’s Monday afternoon and already you’re tired, stressed out and the weekend is so four days away. Maybe clicking on the links to these stories about very inspiring women will help:

Well, I found out the hard way about what things worked to get corporations, agencies, and politicians attention. In Texas and especially the isolated rural place I was from, it certainly wasn’t working ‘inside the box’. I could have worked inside the box for the rest of my days, dotting every i and crossing every t and what i would have gained was a couple parts per million on chlorine or vinyl chloride. Nothing in fact. So, at the risk of losing my bay and an entire culture where I grew up, I took a risk—and did a hunger strike. That hunger strike worked because it was using a different kind of energy–i think it was heart energy, as gandhi talks about–and also it was something the corporations could not control. And it worked. i think we citizens of this globe need to get eyeball to eyeball with corporate ceo’s and tell them we will take NO MORE.

In her most recent protest, Gump and oth­er anti-nuclear protesters tres­passed July 5 at the Y-12 Na­tional Security Complex, ac­cording to a news release from U.S. Attor­ney William Killian’s office.

Jean will turn 84 in prison this week. You can send her a card to this address: